Hazards of volcanic lakes: Analysis of Lakes Quilotoa and Cuicocha, Ecuador

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 14, Issue , 2008, Pages 29-33

  Gunkel, G ^a   Beulker, C ^a   Grupe, B ^a   Viteri, F ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALDERA; CARBON DIOXIDE; EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGICAL HAZARD; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; PHREATOMAGMATISM; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ANDES; COTOPAXI; CUICOCHA LAKE; ECUADOR; IMBABURA; QUILOTOA LAKE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 37749039649     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-14-29-2008     Document Type: Article

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